Although the conduct of Chechen fighters has scarcely been documented in non-governmental reports, information indicates that they indiscriminately fired on, and killed, civilians.
Restoration of the Chechen-Ingush autonomy by decrees of the Presidiums of the Supreme Soviets of the USSR and the Rsfsr on January 9, 1957, the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, [1 ] [2 ] and within slightly different boundaries than when…
Раньше, на томъ мѣстѣ, гдѣ нынѣ расположенъ г. Владикавказъ, существовалъ ингушскій аулъ Зауръ, но въ 1784 г., по распоряженію князя Потемкина, на мѣстѣ, гдѣ существовалъ этотъ аулъ, для охраненія Военно-Грузинской дороги, служившей…
I heard of Russian aviators who threw Chechen prisoners, screaming, out their helicopters. There were rapes, but it was hard to know how many because women were too ashamed to report them.
The Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic [a ] (Checheno-Ingush ASSR) was an autonomous republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
El Cáucaso norte (aún parte integrante de la Federación Rusa) comprende siete repúblicas autónomas cuya población está, si nos desplazamos de Oeste a Este, cada vez más islamizada : República de Adigea, República de Karatchevo-Cherkessia…
The two Russo-Chechen wars (1994-96 and 1999-onwards) have brought the country and its people to the centre of world attention. This text argues that fully to grasp the significance and meaning of recent events one has to study them from a…